"Oh my God he’s here!" I screamed at my mum and dad.
A stretch Limo that seemed to go on forever drove down the Grove and stopped outside my house.
I had been waiting for this moment for like hours. It was 4:00am an unearthly hour for me but I had been up since 2:00am too excited about going on holiday with Nick to sleep.
"Remember, he’s famous but he’s still human so look out for yourself." My dad said with a concerned look on his face. I knew he was worried but I knew he was so happy for me.
"Remember to phone home every night and we want to know all about it. Oh honey you’re so lucky."
I heard the gate go.
"Mum you get it."
"But.."
"Just do it."
I ran into the toilet for one last nervous pee. Oh my God, I’m going to America with Nick. I thought to myself.
I washed my hands and took one last look in the mirror.
"You go girl." I told myself.
I didn’t look too bad considering I had been up since 2. I flushed the chain and walked out. I was shaking. I could hear Nick talking to my mum. She was telling him to look after me and my dad was doing the over protective dad thing. He sounded as nervous as me but he answered each question with a polite "yes mam" and "yes sir."
I took one last look at my room, I wouldn’t be seeing this for 2 weeks. I took my hand luggage and put my coat on.
As I walked into the room I saw Nick’s eyes light up and a little voice in my head went "yes!"
"Hi." I said struggling to speak.
"Hey Kate." He said with a strong American accent. God I love that accent.
Nick took my suitcase and made for the door.
"I’ll be out in a minute." I shouted after him.
"K."
"Oh take care love, and remember every night."
My mum gasped through tears while about strangling me with a hug.
"Yeah everything your mum said." Said my oh so macho dad.
I walked out the door without turning back as I knew I would cry if I saw them.
Nick was standing outside the Limo with an almost cheeky smirk on his face.
"Oh Lord what have I let myself in for." I whispered under me breath.
He was wearing jeans and a lime green Devil Rays T-shirt. He looked boyish and I liked it.
"Your Limo is waiting for you Madam." He said with a posh accent. It was soooo cute.
"Why thank you." I said while getting in to the Limo.
"Girl you could fit everything and the kitchen sink in here."
Nick laughed at my attempt at the American accent.
"Ah it’s not that good after you’ve been in it a few times."
"How long’s the journey?"
"3 hours to Heathrow."
"We’ll need some entertainment then." I said in a sensual way.
Nick leaned over for a kiss but I played hard to get and ran to switch the TV on.
He looked kind of embarrassed but he recovered easily. I switched it on but I got a fuzzy reception so I switched it off. I moved to sit back next to him. I stared him in the eye. Damn he looked good. He went in for the kill and this time I was cornered. I couldn’t resist anyway. He was nervous but it didn’t show. His lips were soft.
"Dang, lip balm." I suddenly shouted.
He looked at me in shock and confusion.
"I forgot to bring lip balm."
"Is that it, your worried about some dumb lip balm!"
With that he stormed off to sit at another end of the Limo. This was a side of Nick I’d never seen. He was obviously embarrassed and he had been working hard all week. He was like a cranky toddler who hadn’t had his nap.
I left him over their for a while to cool down but after about 10 minutes I went over there. I sat on his lap but he ignored me so I softly but firmly grabbed his face so he looked at me.
"Do you know what the best part of falling out is?" I asked but he didn’t respond. So I answered for him,
"Making up." And with that I gave him the most passionate kiss I could manage. He seemed pleasantly surprised and kissed me back. Then we both laughed.
"I’m sorry, I flew off the handle." He said sheepishly as though he were expecting me to shout at him.
"I’m sorry for being shallow as well."
I snuggled up to him, God he smelt gorgeous. I was knackered and I had only been on the road about an hour.
I drifted off to a light dreamy sleep but was awoken by the stopping of the car and the ringing of a phone. Nick picked up the phone and I kind of got the picture that we had arrived at the airport.
"Come on sleepy head." Nick said.
I stirred a little but I didn’t open my eyes so he grabbed my hips and tickled me. Through laughter I managed an "okay, okay I’m up."
I got up and got out the vehicle. Uh oh. I needed the toilet bad. I waddled a little as it hurt to walk. I looked up and saw the queue for the flight. I cannot wait that long for the toilet, but looks like I’ll have to. I waddled closer to Nick.
"What the frig is wrong with you?"
"Well I’m sorry but 3 hours is a little too long for my bladder, it’s the only thing that car doesn’t have."
He laughed but shut up when I gave him an evil glare.
"And now look, someone else has gone in front of us now."
"Don’t you worry you’ll get to your toilet in no time at all." He walked past me and tickled me in a teasing way.
He went over to the driver and whispered something in his ear. The driver seemed to know what he meant and he took the suitcases and piled them onto a trolley and we followed him into the building. We stopped at the end of the queue while the driver went to speak to the woman at the desk.
Nick lent over the trolley and asked if I was excited, and when I replied "yes" a pleased grin came over his face.
I sat down on the trolley as I was still desperate for the loo.
"Hmmm, I must remember to buy some water."
He exaggerated the water bit to remind me of my problem.
I was just beginning to relax when he pushed the trolley into overdrive as we sped past the queue flew and over to the desk. We gave our passports and she gave us our boarding passes then we ran past the desk and he pushed the trolley to deliver me to the toilet. I about leaped up off the trolley and ran into the toilet desperately I could here Nick laugh as I ran.
Chapter 2
Meeting the Family.
After a 7 hour flight and a 7 hour time difference we finally arrived at 9:00pm. We caught a cab to Nick’s house. It was massive, a 13 bedroom mansion. To enter you have to enter a password then these massive gates open and you walk up a brick drive with palm trees every where that sway in a tropical breeze. Although I had always imagined Nick’s house to be very modern and tasteful I found myself staring in disgust at a hideous water feature in the middle of their pond. It was made of some kind of metal that was supposed to be mock stone and was the scene of 2 cherubs urinating from the sky. I snapped myself out of the trance when I noticed Nick had seen me staring.
"Beautiful isn’t it." Nick said in whisper.
"Mmmm." I lied.
Nick knocked on the door and opened it. As we walked inside Nick shouted,
"Anybody home?" Even though he knew there would be.
I stared through to the main hall and admired all the platinum records my boyfriend had won. I jumped when I heard screaming children’s voices. Oh my god theses kids are mental. 3 children ran around the corner almost skidding on the marble floor to grab Nick almost pulling him to the ground in a bear hug. I recognised Aaron immediately but the other 2 I was unfamiliar to. I guessed that they must be Angel and Leslie but I had never seen a picture to tell them apart.
Screams of "Nick you’re back" and "I missed you so much" filled the room. Then an older woman came in (obviously his Mum) followed by his Dad and BJ. His Mum came over to me seeing that I was looking a little lost and gave me a massive hug. I was shocked but grateful as she obviously sensed my pining for my Mum and Dad.
"Everybody I want you to meet Kate." All eyes turned on me and I nervously waved and smiled.
"So Kate you’re probably tired so I’ll show you to your room." His Mum said kindly.
"Thanks Mrs Carter." I responded thinking my voice sounded weird in a house of Americans.
"Please call me Jane."
"And me Bob." His Dad shouted from the back.
"I’m coming up with you." BJ announced.
I went to pick up my suitcase but Jane insisted that she would take it up. Whilst walking up the huge flight of stairs I chatted to BJ who I found had the room next to me. I was glad because we were the same age and we had mostly the same interests.
"So how long will you be staying?" She asked.
"A heavenly 2 weeks." I replied.
"It won’t be so heavenly after the first week."
"Oh why."
"You don’t know what living with him’s like."
"The practical jokes are funny at first but soon wear off, he picks his nose, bites his nails and sticks his fingers in his ears and licks it." Jane chimes in.
"And he whines, that boy could whine for the US."
"Oh." Was all I could think of to say.
"Not really we’re only kidding, although do watch out for the whoopee cushion under the chair joke he’s bound to try it out." Jane informed me.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
"BJ opened the door for me." Jane said.
BJ obeyed and revealed the guest bedroom to me. It was warm orange and yellow with red curtains. The double bed spread was burnt orange and yellow check. There were 2 wardrobes and a chest of drawers. All these things and there was still tons of room, this room alone was as big as half of my bungalow in England.
"Well I’ll leave you with BJ and she’ll give you a tour around the house." Jane told me. She was a warm woman, about 45 with light and obviously dyed blonde hair like Nick. I found her welcoming and she could tell instantly what I was feeling. She closed the door and I heard her go down stairs.
"So you wanna unpack?" Asked BJ.
"Sure."
I put my bag on the bed and sat down next to it. I unzipped it and fished around for my key to the suitcase. Having found it I opened my suitcase.
"It’s gonna be fun having you around." BJ announced.
"Oh why?" I asked.
"Well it’s gonna be like having another sister but my own age and someone that I can talk to."
"What about Leslie. She’s only 3 years younger?"
"I know but she’s such a tomboy and she doesn’t talk to me about the things I wanna talk about."
"What are they then?"
"Well are you any good with boys?"
I stopped unpacking, intrigued I sat down on the bed next to BJ.
"Well to be honest Nick is my first boyfriend, I’ve never kissed anyone else. But go ahead talk to me."
"Well there’s this boy down the road called Clay and he’s sooo cute. He is like the image of Justin Timberlake. But anyway I don’t know whether he likes me."
"Well if he does what signs has he shown?"
"He always talks to me and if I’m sitting on my own he comes and sits with me. He’s always complimenting me on stuff and he doesn’t show as much interest in any of my friends as he does with me."
"Hmm, it seems as though he probably likes you, but if you want to be sure if you point him out to me I’ll talk to him if you like."
BJ’s eyes lit up making them sparkle an ocean blue.
"Would you oh that would be wonderful." BJ exclaimed
"Just don’t make it too obvious that I like him OK." She told me. "Nick really likes you, you know. He always talks about you and he’s written it in his drawers."
"His drawers, how do you know that?" I asked secretly pleased.
"Haven’t you ever heard of the expression, when the cat’s away the mice will play?"
We both laughed and fell back on the bed.
"I suppose I ‘ought to finish unpacking." I said and got up. I went over to the wardrobe and opened it ready for my many clothes. There were coat hangers provided which was a good job ‘cause I’d forgotten to bring some.
"So do you know what Nick has planned for me tomorrow?" I asked.
"Girl, I know as much as you do." "But I know it must be special ‘cause he spent a day in his room before he left for England planning your stay."
"So you don’t talk that much with him now?"
"Sometimes but I couldn’t tell him stuff about Clay." "Do you have any brothers or sisters Kate?" She asked me.
"No but I always wanted a big sister. Someone to do your make up."
"Stop!" She shouted. She got off the bed and came over to me.
"Oh my God that dress is so gorgeous." She said with a bit of friendly jealousy.
"It’s my favourite." I said smiling.
She ran her fingers across the shimmery purple material.
"It’s my slapper dress."
"Why do you call it that?"
"I don’t know my friend Leighann got me doing it."
We both laughed and as I retrieved my treasured platforms from my case BJ said in frustration
"oh this is so not fair."
"If you’re gonna be mardy then you can try them on but they are the most expensive thing in my case so you break it you bought it."
As I put the last of my things into the chest of drawers BJ took out the shoes and put them on.
"God my mum would never let me go out in these."
I laughed at her excitement over the shoes.
"K that’s enough, in the cupboard if you please." I told her.
"Hmm."
"Now come on and take me on this tour."
Chapter 3
Meeting Mickey
I awoke to a peck on the cheek from Nick.
"Mmmm." I groaned and rolled over.
"Come we’ve gotta get an early start."
"What’s the time?"
"5:00am."
"Why’s it so light out?" I croaked while squinting my eyes.
"We’re in Florida, the sunshine state, the sun always shines."
"Well I don’t like it." I moaned.
With that Nick got on the bed on top of me and softly kissed me then moving his hands down to my hips, without warning he tickled me.
I laughed uncontrollably and loud.
"Ssh." Nick hushed me and I stopped. "If I’m caught in here I’ll be dead."
"OK baby I’m up." I said and kissed him quickly before throwing him off the bed so I could get out.
"Oh man, why are chicks so moody in the morning?"
"We’re not moody and we’re not chicks." I said and playfully slapped him.
"Well then woman I’ll be downstairs."
He turned and went for the door but I grabbed his had and spun him round for one last kiss.
"What was that for?" He asked.
"Nothin’, can’t a woman kiss her man once in a while?"
Nick gave a cheeky grin and walked out.
"Ooo, wait." I whispered as load as I could not to wake the house.
Nick’s head popped around the door.
"What do I need to wear?" I asked him.
"Nothing. Only joking, um, anything you want."
"K."
I shut the door and went to the wardrobe. I grabbed my lilac strappy top and my denim hot pants. It was time to say "bye bye pale legs." I put on my wedge flip flops and climbed down the stairs as fast as I could not being used to stairs.
I found Nick in the kitchen munchin’ on a piece of toast.
"Hey." He said. "You hungry ‘cause there’s some toast left."
"Not really but I s’pose I should eat something."
I grabbed a piece of toast and sat down at the table opposite him.
"So are you gonna tell me where we’re going today." I asked Nick.
"No." He said casually. "It’s a surprise."
"Hmm."
He was dressed in a white vest, surf shorts and a pair of sunglasses rested on his head. He looked as though the beach was his second home which in actual truth was.
I looked at the slice of toast for a while then decided to take a bite. It made me churn a bit but all food does in the morning. I chewed it for ages unable to swallow.
"Are we going to the beach?"
"Maybe."
"Oh you’re so annoying!"
He laughed at my exasperation.
"What’s so funny?" I asked as I got up and put my plate in the sink.
"Nothing." Nick got up and grabbed me round the waist. "I’m just thinking about how much I love you." He whispered in my ear.
I turned my head round and kissed him on the lips.
"You really mean that?"
"Sure."
I turned my whole body around and put my hands around his neck and pulled his head down for a kiss. He pushed my lips open with his tongue and we teased and explored each others mouths. He moved his hands from my waist and slip them to my hot pants. He began to unbutton them but I pulled away to stop him. I held his hands in mine and said,
"not just yet."
"That’s OK, baby whenever you’re ready." He reassured me soothingly. I buttoned myself up and looked up at the clock. It was 6:00am. Nick went over to the table and brought his plate to the sink.
"OK let’s go."
"Not until you tell me where we’re going."
"Well we’re gonna have to do something about that."
Nick told me and with that he picked me up in his arms and carried me out of the kitchen, I picked my bag up on the way out and we headed to his green Jeep. He placed me in the passenger seat and he went and pulled the roof down. He got in the drivers seat and put the keys in.
"Wow this is a bad car."
"Bad?"
"Yeah it’s an expression us English use for something good."
I switched on the radio and Another Level Bomb Diggy blasted out. As Nick reversed and circled the drive I had enough time to catch a glimpse of BJ smiling and giving me a thumbs up. I smiled and waved back at her.
"So do you know this Clay guy?" I asked Nick casually.
"Yeah he lives there." Nick pointed to a house that we flew by in the Jeep. "Why?"
"Just wanted to know, he’s s’posed to be a bit of a babe here, thought I might check him out." I grinned.
"You’ve been talkin’ to BJ haven’t you."
"Maybe."
"Oh come on it’s written all over your face and hers, she’s got a massive crush on him."
"How did you know." I asked.
"After a while you get to read the signs." He informed me. "Like I’m reading the signs that you have a massive crush on one Nick Carter." He said teasingly.
"Huh that blonde bimbo, never."
We both grinned and looked into each others eyes.
"Nick, you’d better look at the road or I’ll never live to see this surprise."
"Oh yeah."
I waved my arms in the air to the song letting the wind run through my hair and waving at the pedestrians or rollerskaters.
"You’re mad you are."
"Why am I embarrassing you?" I asked cheekily.
With that I became waving madly and humming the national anthem. When we got to traffic lights I would shout, "God Nick if you’re going to keep wetting yourself I suggest that you bring a pair of spare of pants."
"I’m not embarrassing you am I Nick ‘cause we wouldn’t want that now would we."
Nick cowered into his seat and cringed and I just sat there and grinned while Nick made a just you wait face. Nick kept looking cautiously at the sign posts as if waiting for a certain one. I stretched adjusted my seat so it lay me back a bit and I put my sunglasses and cream on. I sunbathed for a while but after about 10 minutes I felt the car swerve and pull into a lay by. I re-adjusted my seat and looked at Nick.
"Right missy off with the glasses and on with the blind fold."
"What!?" I asked.
"You can’t be seeing where we’re going from now on, and I can’t trust you to keep those peepers shut."
"Oh you can."
"Well I’m not so sure. Just put it on." Nick demanded.
"OK, OK if you’re gonna have fit about it." I put the blind fold on and huffed in protest although really I loved it when Nick was dominant.
"You know this is gonna ruin my hair." I whined.
"Nothin’ to ruin." Nick said mischievously as he drove the car back onto the road.
I lay back and enjoyed the Florida sunshine. I thought about my friends back in England. I bet they’re having a good time. Not. And Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben how he wishes he was with me right now. I had had a crush on Ben for ages but he had liked Sarah, well it’s pay back now.
"Right we’re here." Nick interrupted my thoughts.
I went for the blind fold but Nick stopped me.
"Ah, ah. You’re not taking that off yet."
"Oh but.." I felt a finger silence me. I heard Nick’s car
door open and he walked around to open mine. He held my hand and helped me out of the car. He shut the car door and turned me around and then he took the blind fold off. I immediately jumped up and started screaming with excitement.
"Oh my God you brought me to Disneyworld!!"
Nick just grinned.
"I’ve always wanted to come here!!!" I screamed.
"OK babe, just calm down ‘cause people are beginning to look."
I gave Nick a great big hug and stood back to take it all in. We went into the park and it was more magical than I ever thought it could be. I was running around like a child.
"Oh my God there’s Mickey!" I shouted.
Nick took my picture and we planned our day.
Chapter 4
The Plotting
"Wow that was so cool." I told Nick as we came out of Disney world.
"But that’s not all of it we’ll have to come back another day."
I looked at my watch. It was 4:30.
"So what are we doing now?"
"That my sweet, is again a surprise."
"Oh how can you do this to me." I whined.
Again Nick just laughed.
I turned the radio back on. It was a1 Summertime. Perfect I thought. I put on my sunglasses and lay back for a spot of bathing.
We arrived back at Nick’s house at quarter to six.
"What time is it hun?"
"5:45."
Nick cursed under his breath something about being late. I got out the car and followed him into the house.
"Yo Aaron whassup?" Nick asked his brother.
"Hey Nick hey Kate, did you like Disney?"
"Yeah I did thanks. It was so amazing the lights were bright and the……."
"Come on I think you better stop before your tongue drops off." Nick and Aaron laughed at his joke but I just replied with a "hey that’s not fair."
"Kate you go upstairs I think BJ’s up there, so you to can do girlie things. I need to go do some stuff." Nick said suspiciously.
"But I thought you said.." Aaron was cut short by a punch in the back.
"Ouw what’d you do that for."
Nick ignored him and gave his innocent smile.
"K I’m gonna leave now you’re scaring me." Those to were up to something.
I went upstairs and knocked on BJ’s room. No answer I opened the door.
"BJ are you…" I was shocked to see a boy sitting on her bed.
"Oh I’m sorry." I apologised.
I couldn’t see BJ but she came from around the corner.
"Oh hi Kate, um, Kate this is Clay, Clay this is Kate." BJ said a little flustered.
We both took a step forward and shook hands.
"Hi." He said.
"Well hi Clay." I said emphasising the Clay bit.
"Um Kate you won’t tell Mom ‘cause see we’re not allowed boys up here."
"No course I won’t I just came up here ‘cause Nick said he had something to do. But I’ll be going back down."
"Something to do, something to do." BJ kept repeating my words as if looking for something in them.
"Oh know don’t do that!" She shouted.
"What?" I said turning round.
"You can’t go down stairs because.." She looked round at Clay for some help.
"’Cause our mad Aunts here!!" She gasped.
"Your what?" I asked.
"You know she’s a bit tick, we wouldn’t want you meeting her."
"Oh right." I could see straight through her but decided to stay.
"Um Clay, would you mind going down stairs for a bit, leave me and Kate for a while."
"Sure." Clay got up. He was tall and did actually look like Justin Timberlake. Although I’ve never liked Justin I could see the attraction with Clay.
"Bye Clay!" I shouted down the stairs.
We waited till he was right down the stairs until we started screaming.
"Oh my God what happened?" I asked impatiently.
"Well he came round at about.."
"Cut the crap BJ tell me the juicy stuff."
"Well we made out!!!!!!"
"So does this mean your going out with him?"
"Yeah!"
I gave her a big hug and we danced around her bedroom doing a jig. I walked over to the window to look out but BJ stopped me and shut the curtain.
"OK what’s wrong with this family. You’ve been acting strange all day?" I asked
"Well it’s just that Nick has something planned and he doesn’t want you to see."
"Hmm."
"Now come on let’s do each others make up it’ll be fun."
"OK."
Chapter 5
Pool Party
Fully made up, me and BJ decided that we would go outside and do a spot of bathing and swimming.
"K I’ll just put my bikini on."
"Good, make it a hot one. You wanna make Nick hard."
We both laughed and I chose my denim one. I slipped it on and put my sunglasses and cream into a bag. I put my Read Or Deads on and knocked on BJ’s door.
"Out in a minute!" She shouted.
BJ stepped out in a stunning black two piece that showed off her tan wonderfully.
"Right I’m not standing next to you."
She laughed and said "not looking too bad yourself."
We both laughed, linked arms and walked down the stairs. At the bottom BJ released my arm and told me to stand where I was.
"Where are you going?" I shouted as she ran round the corner.
"Just stay there."
I sat down on the step and felt very vulnerable in my bikini. A minute later she came bounding back round the corner. She grabbed my arm and led me out into the kitchen.
"OK shut your eyes and put this blind fold on for me."
"Hey what is with blind folds today?"
"Come on just do it."
I put on the blind fold but I was secretly pleased because it seemed as though Nick had gone to a lot of trouble for this. BJ held my hand and led me through the kitchen to the patio door. I could here nothing. It was completely silent.
"OK I’m taking the blind fold off." BJ informed me.
When she took the blind fold off it took me a while to see because of the blinding light but when I focused I could see lots of people.
"SURPRISE!" Everyone shouted.
There were welcome Kate banners around and Nick had arranged a pool party for me.
"Everybody this is my wonderful girlfriend Kate." Nick announced me to the group and again I felt very shy and all I could do was wave.
A man with blue shorts on stepped forward and I immediately recognised him as Brian.
"Hey Kate whassup I’m B-Rok, this is Leighanne she’s my girlfriend and I’m sure you two will get on really well."
Just as an awkward silence fell on the party Jane came over and announced the food was out on the table. This was perfect timing and everyone lost interest in me and went for the food. Leighanne stayed with me though. She didn’t look the type to eat at parties as she was stick insect thin.
"So do you still go to school?" She asked me as we went to sit down on loungers to soak up the last rays.
"Yeah but I’ll be leaving soon to go to college."
"What do you want to do when you’re older?"
"I want to be a fashion designer."
"Cool, I wanted be one of those but I didn’t have the skill. You look like you could handle it though."
"Thanks."
Slowly the crowd began to emerge from the kitchen with plates of food.
"Hi baby." Brian said as he came to perch on the end of Leighanne’s lounger.
"Hi hon." She replied giving him a quick kiss. Those two were in love, you could tell when they looked into each others eyes.
Nick came out but without food. I gave him a sexy smile and he flashed a grin my way. I decided to leave Brian and Leighann and go speak to him.
"Thanks for doing this baby." I said and gave him a hug and kiss. We were standing by the pool and a naughty thought came to mind. He had his back to the pool and I thought I’d push him in.
"There’s just one thing." I told him while putting my hands on his chest.
"What’s that?"
"This!" And with that I pushed him and he went falling into the cold water.
Nick came surfacing with a playful nasty look on his face.
"Well that wasn’t very nice."
"I know I’m sorry." I put out my hand to help him but cottoned on that he would pull me in so removed it quickly.
"Hey!" He said child like.
I kept putting my hand close to him and quickly taking it away seeing it annoyed him. But while I was laughing and not looking he grabbed my legs from under me and pulled me in. I went down and surfaced quickly.
While he was still laughing I dived and came up behind him.
"Hey where’d you go?" he asked kinda worried.
I grabbed his shorts with my fingers.
"One more word and the shorts get it."
"What?"
"You know. Rip all is revealed."
"You wouldn’t."
"Oh wouldn’t I?"
Suddenly I felt something on my back to make me let go. I turned around and Aaron stood there with a massive watergun.
"OK you little weasel. I’m not gonna get you now. That would be too easy but you better watch your back."
"Oooh I’m scared." He said sarcastically.
"You should be I’m a dab hand at martial art."
Aaron shook his knees in an "I’m so scared" way and ran off to target another innocent girl.
I turned round and Nick was gone. I looked around and couldn’t see him. I spun around thinking he’d be behind me playing a joke. I couldn’t see him. Then I saw a body.
"Oh my God!" I screamed.
I swum as fast as I could to him and put Nick in my arms.
I looked around at everybody then I heard a low laughing. I looked down at Nick and he was nearly in hysterics.
"Bastard!!" I shouted at him and dropped him in the water.
"Oh come on it was funny." He tried to say through laughter.
"Fuck was it funny."
Nicks face went serious.
"Oh I’m sorry baby."
"Don’t you apologise to me." I told him and swam to the side and got out.
I saw Leighanne sitting on her own and decided to go and sit with her.
"Hi." I said.
"Hey what’s up."
"Nick’s just being a twat." I explained
"I know what you mean. Brian’s just the same when he gets in that sort of mood." She sympathised
"He scared the shit out of me."
"He didn’t mean to."
"Oh yeah." I said sarcastically.
"He loves you, you know. I’ve never seen him like act this way. They thought it was love for him and Mandy but I wasn’t sure and look how that one turned out."
"I’m not like her."
"I’m sure you’re not."
"You’re cool you know. I don’t know why everyone seems to dislike you."
"No." Leighanne murmured and looked down.
"I’m sorry, I’ve obviously upset you I’ll go." v "No don’t, I enjoy your company."
"Well again I’m sorry it must be awful for you."
"It is."
"How long have you and Brian been going out?"
"5 years."
"Wow that long. I wonder if me and Nick will last that long."
"I’m sure you will."
Just then I felt someone come up behind me. I looked up and saw BJ.
"Hey whassup."
"Nothing except Nick’s being a jerk."
"Oh no what’s happened."
"They’ve had a lovers tiff." Leighanne explained to BJ.
"You’ll sort it out." She told me.
"So how’s things with you and Clay?" I asked changing the subject.
"Great." BJ beamed.
"So you two finally got together?" Asked Leighanne.
"Yeah." Replied BJ still grinning like the Cheshire cat.
After about 5 minutes of girlie chat Brian came to visit his girlfriend bringing Kevin and Howie. I stared at Howie for a while thinking how gay he looks in real life. Me and Sarah had always suspected but this really made my mind up.
"Hey y’all hey baby." Brian said as he came over.
"Hey." I replied shocked at how I was picking up the accent.
"Hi Kate are you enjoying your stay." Kevin asked. I was just about to say thanks when BJ burst out with "she’s fallen out with Nick."
"Oh you’ll make up soon." Announced Howie in such a girlie voice that I could not believe. He was wearing black shorts and a pair of dodgy looking flip flops. I just smiled.
"So you two haven’t brought dates tonight?" I asked Howie and Kevin.
"No unfortunately." Kevin explained.
"I’m sorry to hear."
Again the awkward silence was about to fall on us when AJ and his girlfriend ran up behind us.
"Well hello there!" AJ shouted.
"AJ man we’re standing next to you, you don’t need to shout." Howie told AJ.
"So who’s up for a l’il game of water polo?" AJ asked.
"I am." I said.
"Yeah sure." Everyone agreed.
So we went off and arranged ourselves into groups.
Chapter 6
Making Up
I walked up the stairs exhausted. The waterpolo was so tiring. I opened my door without looking in first. I walked in and shut the door behind me.
"Nick!" I shouted in shock.
Nick got off my bed and put a finger to my mouth.
"Shh." He whispered
I gave him a stern look.
"Look I’m really sorry about today, it was really out of order and I promise never to do it again." He explained.
"I thought you were dead."
"I never meant to upset you." He gave me the puppy dog treatment.
"Oh come on if you’re gonna be like that." I said and smiled.
I reached to hug him and he wrapped his arms around my waist. We stood like that for a few minutes, dancing to no music. I looked up at him and he looked at me. I stared into those big blue eyes and pulled his head down for a kiss. It was long and passionate, our tongues entwined as one. I pulled away.
"I love you." I told him.
"I love you too. Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?" He asked.
"Well there is one thing." I sat down on the bed.
"Yeah."
"You’re probably really good at this. I need to get my revenge on Aaron."
An evil smirk arose on Nicks face.
"Well you’ve come to the right man."
We both lay down on the bed and plotted.
Chapter 7
Revenge on the Weasel
After 20 minutes of plotting and scheming we had come up with the perfect plan. I went to BJ’s room as we needed assistance. We invited her into my room and we explained our plan.
"This is perfect." She said. "I’ve always wanted to get my revenge on Aaron and now I’ve got my chance."
"Now BJ you know what to do right." Nick asked to reassure himself.
"Yeah I’ll go to the bathroom now and I’ll meet you down there in say 15 minutes right."
"Right." I replied as I beamed.
I got the quilt off my bed, grabbed a few scrunchies and me and Nick went downstairs. We found Aaron in the lounge on the sofa just as we’d planned. He was watching some cartoon and seemed to be glued to the TV. We lay the quilt on the floor below the sofa and I lay on it.
"What ya doin’ with the quilt?" Aaron asked still hypnotised by the TV.
"Just a bit of comfort, it’s like a security blanket."
"And how old are you Kate?" Asked Aaron sarcastically.
"Comical little boy aren’t you." I replied.
Nick and I kept looking at our watches nervously.
"Where was BJ?" Was on both our minds.
"Hey everyone." BJ said as she arrived.
"I think I gotta go to the loo." I said to make my exit.
"Yeah me too." Said Nick.
"Whatever." Snapped Aaron.
We pretended to go to the toilet and walked back into the room. BJ had positioned herself perfectly at one of the ends of the quilt so I took the other careful not to lie on it. Nick casually walked to behind the sofa and pretended to be watching the TV over Aaron’s shoulder. We all looked at each other to make sure that everyone was ready. I counted 3 on my fingers, that was my signal. Nick tipped the sofa dropping Aaron onto the quilt, when he was on, me and BJ folded it up and tied it secure with bobbles. It was hard as he was very wriggly.
Nick came and grabbed Aaron in the middle to hold him steady. We carried him out to the pool. On the way me and BJ were undoing the bobbles. We got to the pool and opened the quilt and Aaron rolled out and into the pool. We watched to see him surface then we bolted with the quilt to BJ’s room as we knew he would be angry. I locked the door and we dropped to the floor in laughter. We all couldn’t stop laughing.
"Well that was satisfying." I announced through laughter.
"Yeah." Nick agreed.
But we all stopped laughing and froze when we heard heavy footsteps coming up the stairs.
"K that’s either Godzilla or Aaron." I said.
"Please be Godzilla." Nick whined.
"Shh." I whispered.
I moved from my position at the door just in case he tried to break it down. I went and sat down on the bed next to Nick, unable to take my eyes off the door. Aaron tried to open the door, unsuccessful he started kicking at it.
"Look Aaron we’re sorry but if you keep kicking at the door you’ll break it." Nick tried to reason with him.
"So."
"So Mum will be so mad and she’ll make you pay for new one."
"Yeah I suppose so will you open it?" He asked.
"Only if you promise not to go berserk. We make a truce right."
"Right now open the door."
BJ got up, unlocked the door and opened it. Immediately Aaron ran past her like some crazed animal and jumped on Nick sitting on the bed. I screamed and jumped off the bed just in time. I ran over to BJ standing at the door. They wrestled for a while which actually looked quite nasty. I was about to try and stop them when they both stopped and rolled over in exhaustion.
"Hey I thought you were going to kill each other." I whined.
The brothers just laughed.
"I have to admit your plan did work pretty well." Aaron told us.
"Why thank you." I said. "Hey Nick will you help me get my quilt back on my bed?" I asked Nick.
"Sure."
I got up off BJ’s bed and picked up the quilt. Then me and Nick went to my room.
"I really thought he was going to kill you." I told Nick on our way to my room.
"I know, he can look so viscous sometimes."
I opened the door and we went inside.
"Can you get the other end?" I asked Nick motioning for him to help me with the quilt. He did as I asked and we put the quilt back into position. He sat on the bed and laid back.
"Mind you." I said. "All that wrestling looked kinda fun." I gave him a sexy smile and got on top of him.
I kissed him slowly.
"God I want you." He whispered before lightly kissing my neck.
"I know, I want you too but not now and certainly not here."
"Yeah if my Mom caught us, well if my Mom caught us putting the quilt on I’d be dead."
I laughed and slid off the bed.
"Oh my God it’s nearly 10 o’clock." I exclaimed.
"Yeah it’s surprising how time flies when we’re drowning a rat." He joked.
"So what are we doing tomorrow?"
"Don’t you ever learn? It’s a surprise."
"Whatever you say."
"Oh but pack some clothes and your tooth brush we’ll be away for 3 days."
"Hmmm." I said in curiosity.
"Well I better go to my room." He got up opened the door, and had just stepped outside.
"Wait."
"What?" He turned around.
"I want a good night kiss."
He smiled boyishly and I wrapped my arms around his neck. Our lips had only just touched when we heard kissing noises. We stopped and looked to see Aaron standing there. He was watching and pretending to kiss the air.
"I’ll go get him." Nick said.
"Be careful." I joked.
"When we wrestle I’ll think of you."
"OK but don’t get to into it." I shouted after Nick who chased Aaron around the house.
I went back into my room and shut my door behind me. I thought I’d might as well pack my case for tomorrow.
I lifted it down from the top of my wardrobe and opened it up. For the next day I chose a white dress to wear and put it aside on the chair. I also packed all my swimwear, my white, black and denim skirts, all my strappy tops, my extra special evening dress which I’d kept a secret in a bag, my platforms and my trainers. I thought I’d put my beach stuff and toiletries in tomorrow. I got undressed and put my night wear on then I got into bed.
Chapter 8
A Flirtatious Journey
I had been up an hour when Nick came in at 10 o’clock.
"Morning." He said popping his head round the door.
"Morning."
"I’ll be down stairs making breakfast so come down when your ready."
"Wait I’ll come now."
I headed for the door and followed him down the hall.
"You’re looking good this morning." He complemented me.
"Straight back atcha."
"So are you all packed?"
"Yup and raring to go."
"I’m making pancakes this morning do you like them?"
"Yeah sure." "God it doesn’t seem as though I’ve been here only 2 days."
"Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun."
We both laughed.
I sat down at the kitchen table and bit my nail.
"I know you maybe hungry Kate but that doesn’t mean you have to eat yourself." Nick joked.
"Now I see where Aaron gets his comical streak." I said sarcastically. The kitchen was big and white. There must be a wannabe chef in the house but I had not yet had the chance o find out who it was. It must be really hard to clean having it all white. I haven’t seen any maids or workers yet so I assume that there were non.
"Do you have any workers here?" I asked Nick.
"Workers?"
"Yeah you know maids and stuff."
"No, my Mom and Dad have always had to do it themselves and that’s the way they like it."
Nick piled a mound of about 6 pancakes onto each of the 2 plates and brought them over. He sat down opposite me and dug in.
"This is what you normally eat for breakfast?"
"Yeah why?"
"It’s massive."
Nick laughed. "It’ll keep you going for the morning."
"Morning. It’d keep me going for a week."
Again he laughed but I thought I might as well eat them. At the end of breakfast I had eaten all but one of the pancakes, Nick had eaten all of his.
"I feel sick." I complained.
"Oh but you have one more pancake left. Eat it for Nicky-boo." He said while trying to feed me the pancake.
"No leave me alone." I moaned. Waving my arms around.
"Slacker." "I gotta wash the dishes will you go upstairs and bring your stuff down."
"Yeah I’ll be down in a minute."
I went upstairs to the bathroom first to pick up my toiletries and my towel. I checked myself in the mirror before going to the toilet for the last time. I went to my room and picked up my case and went back downstairs.
"K I’m ready I shouted into the kitchen."
Nick came bounding out in a Lakers kit.
He grabbed the keys to the jeep and we went out the door. He opened the door for me while he went round to put my case into the boot. He had already put his stuff in there this morning.
"Ready?" He asked.
"Yeah."
I cranked up the volume on the radio, LFO was on. I loved this song and it acted as like a theme tune to Florida. We finally left his house at 11o’clock.
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